Around 15 minutes (1540 hrs) from target the right wing man contacted me on the radio. I told him we were on our way home and if he still had his bombs to drop them at the last resort target. He replied OK, about five minutes later I tried to contact him again but was unsuccessful."

Robert Drumey was captured by the Japanese and imprisoned as a POW at the Rangoon Cantonment. He died there 12 January 1945 and was buried in the cantonment cemetery. His remains were recovered by Graves Registration. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and a Purple Heart.